Name________________ Period________________ Chapter 12 Quiz

Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1. The age of Earth is estimated at about a. 200,000 years. c. 2 million years. b. 4.5 billion years. d. 2 billion years. 2. Cyanobacteria changed the young Earths atmosphere by producing a. carbon dioxide. c. methane. b. ammonia. d. oxygen. 3. Eukaryotes first appeared a. 1.5 million years ago. c. 1.5 billion years ago. b. 150 million years ago. d. 150 billion years ago. 4. Ozone a. is composed of three oxygen atoms. b. blocks ultraviolet radiation in the upper atmosphere. c. made Earths surface a safe place to live. d. All of the above 5. In mycorrhizae, the fungi provide plants with a. food. c. minerals. b. energy. d. All of the above Completion Complete each statement. 6. Unstable elements that give off energy as they decay, forming stable elements, are called ____________________. 7. The ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ is the hypothesis that life developed when molecules of nonliving matter in the ocean reacted chemically during the first 1 billion years of Earths history.

8. Refer to the illustration above. The three atoms shown make up a molecule of ____________________. 9. The first animals to successfully invade the land from the sea were ____________________. 10. The first vertebrates on land were ____________________.

True/False Indicate whether the statement is true or false. ____ 11. Radiometric dating measures the age of an object by measuring the proportions of radioactive isotopes. ____ 12. The first living things to appear on Earth were prokaryotes. ____ 13. The theory of endosymbiosis proposes that mitochondria and chloroplasts are the descendants of symbiotic aerobic eubacteria. ____ 14. The first fish to evolve had small, powerful jaws. ____ 15. Louis Lerman is credited with developing the bubble model for the origin of lifes chemicals.

Chapter 12 Quiz Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. ANS: STA: 2. ANS: STA: 3. ANS: STA: 4. ANS: STA: 5. ANS: STA: B 4.4.PO.5 D 4.1.PO.2 C 4.4.PO.5 D 4.4.PO.1 C 4.4.PO.5 PTS: 1 PTS: 1 PTS: 1 PTS: 1 PTS: 1 DIF: I DIF: I DIF: I DIF: I DIF: I OBJ: 12.1.1 OBJ: 12.2.1 OBJ: 12.2.2 OBJ: 12.3.1 OBJ: 12.3.2

COMPLETION 6. ANS: radioisotopes PTS: 1 DIF: I 7. ANS: primordial soup model PTS: 1 8. ANS: ozone PTS: 1 9. ANS: arthropods PTS: 1 10. ANS: amphibians PTS: 1 TRUE/FALSE 11. ANS: STA: 12. ANS: STA: 13. ANS: STA: 14. ANS: STA: 15. ANS: STA: T 4.4.PO.5 T 4.1.PO.2 T 4.4.PO.5 F 4.4.PO.5 T 1.3.PO.5 PTS: 1 PTS: 1 PTS: 1 PTS: 1 PTS: 1 DIF: I DIF: I DIF: I DIF: I DIF: I OBJ: 12.1.1 OBJ: 12.2.1 OBJ: 12.2.2 OBJ: 12.3.4 OBJ: 12.1.2 DIF: II DIF: II DIF: II DIF: I OBJ: 12.1.1 OBJ: 12.1.2 OBJ: 12.3.1 OBJ: 12.3.3 OBJ: 12.2.4 STA: 4.4.PO.5 STA: 1.3.PO.5 STA: 4.4.PO.1 STA: 4.4.PO.5 STA: 4.4.PO.5